"Don't boil a kettle on a boat"

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Originally published at: "Don't boil a kettle on a boat" | Boing Boing

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Boiling kettles sink ships!

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steve jobs said ships sink from the top…

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But you can be happy if you’ve a mind to.

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I have boiled a kettle on a boat. Many times, in fact.

However, I have never filled said kettle with petrol.

I’m sure it’s an easy mistake.

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Coincidentally, this episode was on a couple days ago.

Here’s a very specific don’t do video. Don’t drop a can of soup into a grease fire. (or the real PSA never ever ever put water on a grease fire even a tablespoon)

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I believe the Green Cross Code guy in the first one was Dave Prowse, the man inside the Darth Vader costume. (You can hear why they got James Earl Jones to do the voice!)

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OK, so reading the title, I thought this would be about the real life incident of skipper Boris Hermann seriously scalding his foot with hot water while preparing food on the racing yacht Malizia Explorer during The Ocean Race a few weeks ago.
He had to retire for one leg of the race but rejoined his crew in Cape Town now.

Be careful boiling kettles on boats, folks.

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I was about to post exactly the same, including the brackets about James Earl Jones :joy:
Prowse’s Bristolian burr doesn’t quite have the air of menace Darth Vader’s character requires.

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And of course the footage is out there… :grin:

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Always use your fiddles, boys and girls.
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Is the concern that with the full, unsealed water kettle on a boat that may pitch, spill the kettle and extinguish the gas flame resulting in…boom?

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I try and make sure to still be in foulies when messing with the jetboil on ocean races.

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Is it a typo?

You sure wouldn’t want to boil a keter on a boat.

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That’s a sensible precaution. I think their cookbox actually is a jetboil on a gimbal, but that doesn’t help much when you try to pour it out while your foiling IMOCA is slamming its scow bow into the next wave.

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Yep, that’d do it

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Yeah, that’s what we have. Minus the scow bow and the foils.
And the skill.

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So Rick Moranis as Dark Helmet wasn’t entirely out of line.

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If Vader must be British, I’d prefer the Brick Top version.

(Note - contains Guy Ritchie levels of cockney swearing)

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